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I have now finished revising The Puzzle Box, as follows:
1. A new interface/front cover
2. One new Help Card animation and a couple of minor amendments to other
animations
3. More sparing use of the box-icon within the chapters: it now only appears
at those points where the box is mentioned in the narrative, and where
readers will find something new if they click to open it
4. The page-background for Chapter Three has been redesigned
5. The text has been thoroughly proof-read and various minor amendments have
been made
6. On the back of this (show me the money!), a print version is now
available via www.lulu.com and will soon be available from Amazon
http://www.edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/
(If you don't see the new interface, with lots of pictures on it, when you
get to the Puzzle Box index-page, click CTRL + Refresh to update.)
Some recommended videos:
Recently, largely under the tutelage of the film-maker Michael Szpakowski
(http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi),
I've been looking at a lot of experimental videos, and I've been really
surprised and excited by some of the work. Below is a selection of some
personal favourites, and it seems to me that one of the most noteworthy
things about them is how different they are from each other in terms of
their style:
OK Charlie by Brian Gibson - http://lucidunison.com/baio/okcharlie_web.mov:
A portrait of the video artist Doron Golan by his fellow-artist Brian
Gibson. Golan chinks his coffee-cup and says "OK Charlie"; the sequence is
looped; and suddenly we're listening to a tune. Manages to be fingerclickin'
funky and toe-curlingly clever at the same time.
Journey by Robert Croma - http://robertcroma.com/2008/09/24/the-journey/:
Commuters on a tube train: profiles, the backs of heads, shoulders, sliding
doors. About halfway through this video there's an extremely subtle
transition from observational realism to something symbolic and
metaphysical, leading up to a magical moment at the end.
Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie - http://www.myspace.com/orenlavie: A
video, co-directed by singer-songwriter Oren Lavie, to go with his song of
the same name. The song is pretty good, but the video is really lovely, a
supremely inventive piece of stop-motion animation featuring a girl on a bed
and a lot of pillows and laundry.
The 9th Allegro by Doron Golan -
http://www.the9th.com/04/the9th_allegro/allegro9.mov: All of Doran Golan's
videos are worth seeing, but this is one of the most outstanding, and
contains many of his most important themes: a sense of place, a sense of
character, a sense of culture and history, a really complex, stereotype-free
attitude towards politically explosive material, and above all tremendous
qualities of composition, structure and control.
Inaugurationanimation by Pall Thayer - http://www.vimeo.com/2917641:
Television coverage of the US Presidential Inauguration, slowed down and
processed until it acquires a rich painterly texture. Redolent not just of
American history and American politics, but the history of American art too.
The slowness of the action seems to bring out the patrician, studied aspect
of the ceremony: the intensely aspirational quality, the feeling that
individuals can make a difference, that the human spirit is inherently
noble, and that the world can be made a better place if we just make a
sufficient effort - along with the intense theatricality, the self-regard,
the sense that these gestures are being made with the whole world for an
audience, and that if you can just get the gestures right it almost doesn't
matter what you actually do.
U cant hold me down by Donna Kuhn
-http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com/2009/02/u-cant-hold-me-down.html: The
dancer and artist Donna Kuhn has gradually been evolving her own completely
individual style of experimental video, and this is one of the best
examples. Glimpses of dance, glimpses of sea-shore, and glimpses of Donna's
spiky, Klee-style drawings combine into something mysterious, tense, sad and
poetic.
- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
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